I had to have her. Blonde bombshell. Park Avenue princess. Nina Astor was pure as snow and giving me one night to dirty her up. But by morning, I knew: She wasn't just a pretty face. She wasn't just a casual fling. One night? Please. I needed a lifetime. Then I discover: Nina Astor isn't who she says she is. She's beyond off-limits. The real problem? I couldn't care less.

A Manhattan woman visits a Soho gallery and stumbles into a mystery in this novel by an Edgar Award winner who “can build suspense to a sonic peak” (Los Angeles Times). It starts innocently enough. Julie Hayes and her husband have just returned to Manhattan from a month in Paris. Julie looks forward to spending quality time with Jeff, whose career as a journalist takes him away from home for months on end. Now if they could just find the perfect work of art to hang over their mantel. Julie’s quest takes her to a trendy SoHo gallery where she meets an itinerant artist named Ralph Abel. Julie instantly falls in love with one of his paintings, Scarlet Night, and is stunned to discover that itcan be hers—for a mere one hundred dollars. But then the artist disappears and it becomes apparent that somebody else wants the painting . . . and will do whatever it takes to possess it. Scarlet Night is the second novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s Julie Hayes mystery series, which also includes A Death in the Life, Lullaby of Murder, and The Habit of Fear, as well as the stories “The Puppet” and “Justina” in the collection In the Still of the Night.

His “beast” is no match for her “beauty”… Or her crazy! Zane Murdoch’s horrific past is forever etched on his skin, marking him as a monster; making him into a monster. It’s his punishment, one that anchors him to his pain and anger. But he’s fought on, hopeful that someday he’ll find a way to conquer the beast within him. Serena Vailean can’t let go of the past, and her past can’t let go of her. In the spectral embrace of her murdered lover, it’s easy to not let go. But all that changes when Zane arrives on her doorstep, blows her off her feet, and then pulls her back into her old life… And her new future. All at once, Serena finds herself fighting. Fighting her growing feelings for Zane, fighting the urge to let go of the past, and fighting to keep her and her new friends— her clan! —from being destroyed by an old, familiar foe. Can the untamed beauty and the battered beast overcome their pasts, accept their entwined destinies, and, together, overcome this new threat… Or will they find themselves marked and haunted by even more failure?

What if you learned that your fiancé was not who he claimed to be? Engaged to charming, seductive Greg Anders, Sara Shaw is happily anticipating her wedding in Edilean, Virginia. The date has been set, the flowers ordered; even her heirloom dress is ready. But just three weeks before the wedding, Greg gets a call during the night and leaves without explanation. Two days later a strange man turns up at her apartment . . . Mike Newland is an undercover detective. His assignment is to use Sara to track down a woman who is one of the most notorious criminals in the country, and who also happens to be the mother of the man Sara plans to marry. Mike thinks the job will be easy - if he can figure out how to make Sara trust him. But Mike has no idea what this mission has in store for him. He has connections to Edilean dating back to his grandmother's time there in 1941, but he's worked hard to keep them private. As Mike and Sara get to know each other, he can't help but share secrets that he's told no one else. And in return, Sara opens up to Mike about things she could never reveal to Greg. As they work together to solve two mysteries, will Mike and Sara's growing love for each other be enough to heal the wounds of the past?

A teenage boy in 1940s Italy becomes part of an underground railroad that helps Jews escape through the Alps, but when he is recruited to be the personal driver for a powerful Third Reich commander, he begins to spy for the Allies.

Two hundred years ago a Man in Amber held the world on his back, but in his time of need, humanity coward, and were then cursed. Monsters of unspeakable horror now roam the earth, man now mutated to resemble the beast of the earth have fled to the farthest reaches. But against all odds they have managed to rebuild. In the land of Akumu Verde, the newest members of the Krahe Dragoons have been added to their ranks. Of them are Charles Crossroads, Roy, and Bawui, whose first assignment takes them to the edge of their homeland. Where what would have been a simple search and rescue, has now become a fight for their lives and sanity.

Grieving over the loss of his love, werewolf Bowen MacRieve enjoys a passionate encounter with his enemy, the witch Mariketa the Awaited, but when sinister forces threaten her life, Bowen must use all his skills to keep her alive.